ExtBuilderMojo excludes all META-INF from web including context.xml

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 6.2.0 GA1
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: Plugins
• Labels: None
• Environment: Tomcat 7

ExtBuilderMojo excludes all META-INF:

String[] excludes = new String[] {"META-INF/**"};

unpack(artifact.getFile(), webDir, excludes, null);

This exclusion prevents propagation of META-INF/context.xml which is necessary for jndi based configuration during deployment. As ext-plugin deployment necessarily cleans out the destination completely before redeploying, the containers context.xml is also removed (conf/Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml.